Apropos of nothing, I’m so pissed at these neo-Nazis co-opting even more Nordic symbols because now I have to re-do half of my Viking-era garb to get the now-racist symbols off. Assholes.

The definition of the x-year floodplain means that the probability of that area flooding in a given year is 1-in-x. It’s not based on historical records.

Because that’s how they got rich: never spending their own money.

This is what our middle school teacher had us do for the partial eclipse we had back in the 90s.

They’re celebrating the big poofy dresses and mint juleps and fancy mansions (and probably also the “when men were men” crap), conveniently ignoring the fact that their own family members were in all likelihood far too poor for any of that.

That rally was just as much about that damn statue as #GamerGate was about ethics in gaming journalism.

They could even do it under the guise of “immortalizing” these statues as artificial reefs

I gotchu fam!

Yeah, I’m still pissed about that anti-anti-fracking ban. Voting for that was the most hassle I have ever dealt with in trying to vote, and then the corporations just pay off the state legislature to have their way after the fact.

I think the nature of these comments are more a fault of the sort of folk who read an article title and not the whole article (decide what they’re going to say before they finish reading), but I absolutely concede the point that mentioning this is a book review in the article title (or that the book in question is…

I found the title of this article to be very helpful because it’s a book review and author interview about a book that is specifically geared toward winning over a person whose objections to LGBT rights and issues come from their religious beliefs. I got exactly what I was looking for: how to have the inevitable…

You’re literally blaming raincoaster for a hurtful thing someone said to them. You’re doing exactly what the person who said the hurtful thing did.

Your Catholic school experience is the norm for Catholic schools. If it’s not religion class, then it’s not time to talk about religion. It’s treated as just another subject, and you don’t waste class time for one subject on some other subject.

There’s more Jesus and Bible study in public school than Jesus school. I went to religious schools for K-12 and college, and you would get in so much trouble if you tried to use religion to bullshit on tests and essays and stuff. The whole idea is that history class is for history, math class is for math, and religion…

Facebook users don’t have the right to free expression any more than someone in a Starbucks has the right to free expression. It’s private property, and if you can be asked to leave a business for telling another customer that they are not welcome because they are a Republican or a Jew or something, then you very well…

Seconded.

Because we can’t have competency tests in order to vote without running the risk of disenfranchising voters again. The kinds of tests we could use to determine whether or not someone knew how the government works or the policies of the people they intend to vote for are the same kinds of tests used for decades to…

Paul may say some pretty hateful shit about non-believers (and here, a non-believer would be anyone who doesn’t believe exactly the same thing these people do), but Jesus was pretty damn clear: love people, don’t judge, and serve everyone around you with no exceptions.

Ugh, right? I’m so sick of having conversations with “Good Christians” about how these [category of people] are inherently evil and should be exterminated, or how God is calling them to be a warrior against [class of people] and then they quote that bit about the breastplate of righteousness, when the whole point of…

Let me tell you about grading papers when your students are all grade school teachers. These people are all teachers, and they’re working to further their careers with Masters degrees. They don’t put their names on their papers, and nearly all of them try to turn in their first assignment in Comic Sans. But I had one…